00:01You've come up against him for years, but is there anything working with him every day?
00:05I didn't like him before, now I love him.
00:09The way he feels the game, what's needed, there's not many like him.
00:15When to drop, when to make a move 20 metres away from Rodri,
00:20and you see today, the moment we move the ball to the outside
00:23and they start following the man,
00:25that or Bernardo or Rodri was always free to commit in the middle.
00:32He feels that, and Rodri as well, but he feels that there's nobody else.
00:35He feels the task to play well, to make the team play well.
00:45These are the type of players, when they are not playing, you will feel it.
00:50He does so, so good.
00:51Can I just ask you about Cherki?
00:53There's a couple of videos on the bench when he's putting Etikete's top on.
00:57I don't know if you've seen that.
00:58I didn't see that.
00:59No? No.
01:00I would not understand why, but...
01:04Alex?
01:05Alex, just there, please, Paul.
01:07Hi, Pep.
01:09I was just going to ask you about Cherki as well,
01:11but he did an interview in the international break
01:13about how much he wants everyone to enjoy watching him play,
01:16and certainly the City fans do.
01:18What's he like in training?
01:19Is he like that every day in training?
01:20Has he got that balance between that kind of Maverick side of him, I guess,
01:24and what you guys are after for him on the pitch as well?
01:26If you combine Maverick with the willingness to win each day,
01:32you will become a top player, no?
01:33Because then you will change your style, not your style,
01:36you will change your technique, your creativity,
01:38and to hurt the opposition.
01:41The only thing we are working with him is that he always receives the ball
01:44to hurt the opposition, because you saw the pass to Antoine today.
01:49The feeling, the timing, when he faces the goal, he becomes so, so dangerous,
01:56and it's for all the other players to make sure that he receives these balls
02:03in these kind of pockets and in these kind of spaces.
02:09But if you saw today the work ethic without the ball,
02:14then I think it defines Cherki this season how he is growing.
02:17But it's still not, and he knows this as well, he wants to improve as well.
02:22Can I just quickly check on the fitness of Ruben Dias and John Stones?
02:26Obviously neither involved today.
02:28Ruben got a knock yesterday in the last few minutes of training,
02:33so we are assessing it.
02:34I think he has a scan today, so we have to see.
02:37And John, to be honest, I think will not be long-term,
02:40but it was not available for today.
02:44Last two questions here, thank you.
02:46Hi Pep. Congratulations for the win, first of all.
02:49This win, the win against Arsenal,
02:52how much they can do when you look at the Premier League
02:55and how much they can help the team grow,
02:57considering the task ahead, trying to win the FA Cup?
03:01We have to, because we have points behind,
03:04so we need to keep stepping up, keep using the days off to recover.
03:10and then have training.
03:12It's the first time this season we can train.
03:16So we give them now two days off and then we start training again.
03:21I think there are several ways to create confidence for a team,
03:27by doing a few things really right in training,
03:30but winning football matches, winning finals,
03:32that is what defines confidence level for players.
03:36I always felt it like that in the last so many years.
03:41Winning is not about technique, it's just pure desire,
03:48the combination of talent and desire and show that as a group,
03:51the organisation in that way.
03:54Hi Pep. Just about Bernardo again,
03:56you spoke about all the different things he does to knit the team together.
03:59He's out of contract in the summer, I'm not going to ask you about his future,
04:02but if he was to leave, is he a player who is not as simple as you buy one replacement,
04:08you don't replace Bernardo with a player, you have to change lots of things.
04:13How does that work, like a team without Bernardo Silva?
04:17You never replace a player with the same kind of player because they don't exist.
04:21Bernardo Silva is unique, the way he controls games, the way he moves,
04:28the way he receives, the way he leads, the way he sees the solutions, all these things.
04:35You never search for a replacement of one type of player,
04:40you search for what is needed to grow with the team
04:46and somebody who can fit in the first eleven.
04:50And then you hope with our academy, with the young players we already bought,
04:55that they can make that step as well in the midfield positions.
04:57But if you see our young boys in the academy,
05:01then they have to make that step and to grow.
05:05But the most important is that the seniors who stay for a long time,
05:08that they stay, that they stay, that the core is there,
05:11and around that you can move.
05:13But it will be hard because, as I said, in the game,
05:17when he's not playing, you will see how he's missed,
05:20and that's one game, imagine a season.
05:23But every good story comes to an end,
05:26and I hope he enjoys the last months,
05:30because only six weeks and has a good farewell,
05:34and he deserves all that attention as well.
05:37Thank you everyone, have a good weekend.
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